It seems like a lot of people don’t post or at least don’t post on smaller communities like [email protected]

  • @[email protected]
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    438 months ago
    1. People on the internet suck. No matter what, there will be someone that is upset with your words for some reason. This opens you up to harassment.

    2. I just don’t want to.

    3. I hesitated replying to this post because you are responding by redundantly @ing the user you are replying to. That is a mega pet peeve of mine and I hate it.

    Have a nice day!

    • @[email protected]M
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      158 months ago
      1. I think that happens if they’re commenting from a microblogging service, not a lemmy account.
    • SamXaviaOP
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      58 months ago

      Sorry it auto does the @ on my instance (I use Mbin btw). But yeah I know that some people are hateful, I guess it’s because people feel they can be more open without consequences often.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      Depends also on the attitude, I think.

      I haven’t met many people in this “they suck”-mold of yours. The contrary however…

  • @[email protected]
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    388 months ago

    Why do more people read books than write books? Why do more people eat than cook? It’s easier to consume than to produce.

    • SamXaviaOP
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      @infreq Why does it have to be articles? I’ve read a few of them that are connected from people on Mbin but I like genuine people posting on smaller communities and things.

    • @[email protected]
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      88 months ago

      Yep. Same. Someone has already shared my thoughts or something close enough. No need for me to comment.

    • @[email protected]
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      98 months ago

      We artists have been biding our time in hiding, building our numbers, preparing for the day we have the strength in numbers to overtrhow the gallery visitors and establish a fortress inside against the world. But don’t tell anyone. /s

  • @[email protected]
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    198 months ago

    “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

    I also often question whether the thing I’d like to post needs to be posted (and in the process, I talk myself out of it)

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    8 months ago

    There’s the 90/9/1 rule - out of every 100 people 1 provides content, 9 interact and the other 90 lurk.

    I created and post in a community, worldwithoutus but even after it got above 100 it’s usually just me posting.

    • livus
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      178 months ago

      Duh. I just realised I need to get to 200 before the second poster emerges.

      • SamXaviaOP
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        18 months ago

        @livus Lol yeah, it seems more people sit and maybe comment but there’s just so much room for people to talk about the topic and even do there own posts but I guess most people just want to look at it and not interact.

        • livus
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          28 months ago

          @SamXavia I think this is something about the fediverse though - in the old, centralised media we were often relatively passively consuming content spoonfed to us by alorithms. Here in the fediverse, it pays to be more active in building and finding content.

          It’s a bit of an adjustment in mindset and we’re all in various stages of that.

  • @[email protected]
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    178 months ago

    Because I have nothing to share that I find important enough. I’d rather comment on something

    • SamXaviaOP
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      38 months ago

      @gerryflap Yeah it seems a lot more people are willing to comment over post, it’s nice to see people are a little active.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        I think we should cherish commenting too.

        Creating posts is not the only way of making engagement. Even though it’s better than having a community of 0 posts, I still would be sad to look at a community that has one new post daily but doens’t get any votes or comments.
        Within time not getting engagement can become demoralizing to the content creator. Why bother if you don’t get anything in return? (Been there, felt that - and in many occasions.)

  • @[email protected]
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    168 months ago

    I don’t know y’all, and when people interact, there’s no true community here. I’ll probably not remember most of your names, similar to reddit, digg, slashdot, etc etc…

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      8 months ago

      That’s actually what I like about these sorts of communities. I recognize a few super posters and a few specific regulars from communities I frequent. (@[email protected] I want you to know that I think about you and you matter <3) But mostly I’m dealing with disembodied ideas and content. It’s a conversation with strangers who meet up to talk about certain subjects. We get little bits of each other in a vacuum. We have to address only that bit we’re given, because we don’t know each other.

      I use other social media for real community. Lemmy is for camaraderie. We meet to do something, not to just be.

    • Open_Mike
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      28 months ago

      The only name I immediately remember is MicroWave who seems to post all the time.

    • Thelsim
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      18 months ago

      I would really like to foster a sense of community in the communities I’m active in. Mostly I try doing this by encouraging others to post, reference to other users by name like “nice to see you back, user” or, “you should ask user, they know more about this kind of thing”.
      Referring to others by name does make a community seem more like a connected whole. At least in my opinion.
      It’s nice to be recognized as a person and not just another comment.

  • JackGreenEarth
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    168 months ago

    I post when I have something to say. I don’t post/comment for its own sake.

    • Otter
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      98 months ago

      this

      ^(example of the types of comments that don’t really contribute anything)

  • @[email protected]
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    8 months ago

    I have nothing to share. Funny thing is, as an IT person, I’ve even built my own blog just to have one and share obstacles and solutions I find during my developer journey, and then, once I finished and published it, I was thinking “damn, now what should I post about?” My blog is almost empty ever since then. So… yeah. As for me, I have absolutely nothing to share and I’ve made the extra mile to not share anything.

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      […] I’ve even built my own blog just to have one and share obstacles and solutions I find during my developer journey, and then, once I finished and published it, I was thinking “damn, now what should I post about?” My blog is almost empty ever since then.

      So, is the almost because it does cover the making of and then stops afterward, or…It’s the wonderfiller text only? 😂